Lakers coach Mike D'Antoni accused his team of not playing hard against the Wizards on Friday. / Jayne Kamin-Oncea, USA TODAY Sports

by Nick Schwartz, USA TODAY Sports

by Nick Schwartz, USA TODAY Sports

The Los Angeles Lakers welcomed Kobe Bryant and Pau Gasol back from injury, but it didn't matter much. The Lakers lost at home to the Washington Wizards, 103-100, to bring their overall record to 36-34.

"We put our hands in, and you guys have probably seen it, we say 'Championship.' God, that's laughable. Championship? You've got to be kidding me. Until they understand the importance of every possession offensively and defensively and they've got to come out with some determination to be a good basketball team, then we're just fooling ourselves. We're just making a sham-mockery out of it or whatever you say it is. ... What happened was we didn't play hard enough. We think we can just figure stuff out and just point. Trevor Ariza's got 12 attempts at threes and he's wide open. That's inexcusable. It's just a matter of lapses or gambling or 'I'm not going to play hard tonight because we'll just outscore them.' I can't explain it, but every time we get up 16, it's like, 'Well, we're really good and we don't have to play hard.' And we start messing with the game and start messing with not moving the ball. You start messing with, 'I'm just going to go one-on-one every time,' you start messing with the basketball gods and they get you. The ball will roll around and go in for them and it'll roll around and go out for us because we're messing with the game. If we don't change that, well, obviously we won't make the playoffs, but even if we do, then we'll get blown out in the playoffs."